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Donald Trump’s myriad of legal problems were swirling at full force on Wednesday as the first televised hearing in the 2020 election interference case took place in Fulton County, Georgia.
The former president and all 18 of his co-defendants have entered pleas and waived their in-person arraignments on the charges but the hearing went ahead.
Judge Scott McAfee denying motions separate the speedy trials of Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell which will go ahead on 23 October. He voiced scepticism that DA Fani Willis would get her wish to try all 19 defendants together.
Elsewhere, a judge has found Mr Trump liable again for defaming writer E Jean Carroll ruling that January’s scheduled trial will only determine monetary damages.
Further, a group of Republican voters in Colorado have filed a suit to bar the former president from seeking office again in 2024 citing the 14th Amendment.
In other legal troubles, special counsel Jack Smith has accused Mr Trump of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in the federal election interference case, and a Mar-a-Lago IT employee has agreed to testify in the classified documents case.
